Autograph manuscript letter, signed, regarding an invitation.
"J'accepte avec le plus grand plaisir votre invitation pour vendredi. Après l’expression de mes meilleurs vœux pour l'année 1871 — ainsi que cela de mes sentiments les plus affectueux. Tourguenev. Lundi 2 janvier 1871."
ALS concerning collaboration with the Russian journal Vestnik Evropy : Zurnal istorii, politiki, literatury, and mentioning E.F. Beesly and journal editor Michel Stassulévitch.
In French.
Plates opposite p. 96 and 98 should be reversed., Elizabethan Club copy: With thirty-two manuscript extracts from Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies, selected by an unidentified 18th-century English reader and written in the margins, perhaps Herbert Randolph's father? Also several pencil notes have been erased., Engraved title vignette (portrait of Horace); illustrated with full-page copperplate engravings., With quotations descriptive of each plate from Horace and other Latin writers, and verses in Spanish, Dutch, Italian, and French, on verso of preceding plate., Pages numbered on letterpress pages (rectos) only, with an engraved illustration opposite., Nagler and Bryan attribute the engraving of the plates to Gijsbert van Veen., Colophon reads: Typis Dauidis Martinij., and Binding: Late 17th-century calf, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco label; covers rubbed and heavily crazed with mottling fluid; rebacked, preserving most of the original spine.
Publisher:
Prostant apud Philippum Lisaert, auctoris aere & cura